Rain-X
G-ealousy
10-19-2002, 04:41 PM
I personally love the shi*.....
ragt20
10-19-2002, 04:47 PM
yeah I use the stuff but ain't too happy with it.......
Rich
10-19-2002, 06:04 PM
Never tried it, but I am thinking about it. Maybe someone could give me some pro's and con's?
Moppie
10-19-2002, 06:27 PM
Iv used it before on road and race cars, with mixed results.
i.e. its worked better than expected to it hasnt worked at all.
The demister one seems to work the best, but you do need to reapply it quite freuquently. (like once a week, or more often).
The outside window one does sort of work. But its quickly removed by your window wipers, and since it only works at high speed (when there is enough air flow to remove the water) and it dos'nt work in heavy rain you will have to use your wippers at some stage. Like when driving in heavy traffic at slow speed, or when it starts to rain heavily.
And of course on some cars which due to thier areodynamic design dont have a good flow of air over the window it won't work.
To get the best results you need to get the window totaly clean! and make sure there are no cleaning agents left behind.
And you need to use a very clean and lint free cloth, and don't put to much on.
On a race car I recomend useing it, but for a daily driver I think its wasted.
i.e. its worked better than expected to it hasnt worked at all.
The demister one seems to work the best, but you do need to reapply it quite freuquently. (like once a week, or more often).
The outside window one does sort of work. But its quickly removed by your window wipers, and since it only works at high speed (when there is enough air flow to remove the water) and it dos'nt work in heavy rain you will have to use your wippers at some stage. Like when driving in heavy traffic at slow speed, or when it starts to rain heavily.
And of course on some cars which due to thier areodynamic design dont have a good flow of air over the window it won't work.
To get the best results you need to get the window totaly clean! and make sure there are no cleaning agents left behind.
And you need to use a very clean and lint free cloth, and don't put to much on.
On a race car I recomend useing it, but for a daily driver I think its wasted.
replicant_008
10-19-2002, 09:58 PM
I'm with Moppie - I don't use it on the Mondy but I don't use the local NZ Bars Bugs stuff either - it's useless and leaves residue everywhere on the paint work.
I found that the BMW washer concentrate (about NZD 3 per bottle) works quite well - it's good for 2.5 litres of dilution or about 1 fill of the washer bottle. Also most Euro cars tend to have less windscreen rake than Australian and Japanese cars which tends to let them use the airflow to blast the screen clear.
As for the interior, I find that keeping the inside of the windscreen really clean and using the air-conditioning to demist is perfectly adequate these days.
One other thing - I really recommend use the spring steel backed wiper blades rather than the plastic ones. They are significantly more expensive but a much, much more effective. (I used to drive every weekend for 4 hours to and from the mountain and manage to get a very good collection of insects and birds on the grillle, bonnet and screen - which brings me to another suggestion when you get the screen cleaned at the service station get them to wash your headlights).
As for race cars we do use RainX on the little perspex dodger (but realistically this doesn't get viewed through much) and use the tear-offs on the helmet visor.
I found that the BMW washer concentrate (about NZD 3 per bottle) works quite well - it's good for 2.5 litres of dilution or about 1 fill of the washer bottle. Also most Euro cars tend to have less windscreen rake than Australian and Japanese cars which tends to let them use the airflow to blast the screen clear.
As for the interior, I find that keeping the inside of the windscreen really clean and using the air-conditioning to demist is perfectly adequate these days.
One other thing - I really recommend use the spring steel backed wiper blades rather than the plastic ones. They are significantly more expensive but a much, much more effective. (I used to drive every weekend for 4 hours to and from the mountain and manage to get a very good collection of insects and birds on the grillle, bonnet and screen - which brings me to another suggestion when you get the screen cleaned at the service station get them to wash your headlights).
As for race cars we do use RainX on the little perspex dodger (but realistically this doesn't get viewed through much) and use the tear-offs on the helmet visor.
YogsVR4
10-20-2002, 10:42 AM
I'll say that for a daily driver its absolutely fantastic not so much for rain but for ice and snow. If their is any freezing rain or ice buildup on the window, you dont have to scrape till your arms are exhausted to get that shit off. The rain-x prevents it from bonding to the window like glue.
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